Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
1st Edition
Published on 9. July 2018
360 pages
978-1-4008-3853-0 (ISBN)
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What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, he offers a reasoned alternative to the prevailing anthropocentric view--that the natural environment and its wildlife are valued only as objects for human use or enjoyment. Respect for Nature provides both a full account of the biological conditions for life--human or otherwise--and a comprehensive view of the complex relationship between human beings and the whole of nature.
This classic book remains a valuable resource for philosophers, biologists, and environmentalists alike--along with all those who care about the future of life on Earth. A new foreword by Dale Jamieson looks at how the original 1986 edition of Respect for Nature has shaped the study of environmental ethics, and shows why the work remains relevant to debates today.
This classic book remains a valuable resource for philosophers, biologists, and environmentalists alike--along with all those who care about the future of life on Earth. A new foreword by Dale Jamieson looks at how the original 1986 edition of Respect for Nature has shaped the study of environmental ethics, and shows why the work remains relevant to debates today.
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Paul W. Taylor (1923-2015) was professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND HUMAN ETHICS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Moral Agents and Moral Subjects
- 3. Formal Conditions for Valid Moral Principles
- 4. Material Conditions for Valid Moral Principles: The Content of Human Ethics
- 5. The Structural Symmetry between Human Ethics and Environmental Ethics
- 6. Biology and Ethics
- 7. A Note on the Ethics of the Bioculture
- TWO. THE ATTITUDE OF RESPECT FOR NATURE
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Concept of the Good of a Being
- 3. The Concept of Inherent Worth
- 4. Having and Expressing the Attitude of Respect for Nature
- 5. Respect for Nature as an Ultimate Attitude
- THREE. THE BIOCENTRIC OUTLOOK ON NATURE
- 1. The Biocentric Outlook and the Attitude of Respect for Nature
- 2. Humans as Members of the Earth's Community of Life
- 3. The Natural World as a System of Interdependence
- 4. Individual Organisms as Teleological Centers of Life
- 5. The Denial of Human Superiority
- 6. The Argument for the Biocentric Outlook
- FOUR. THE ETHICAL SYSTEM
- 1. The Basic Rules of Conduct
- 2. Priority Principles
- 3. The Basic Standards of Virtue
- FIVE. DO ANIMALS AND PLANTS HAVE RIGHTS?
- 1. Legal Rights and Moral Rights
- 2. Analysis of the Assertion of Moral Rights
- 3. The Defeasibility of Rights
- 4. Is It Logically Conceivable for Animals and/or Plants to Have Moral Rights ?
- 5. A Modified Concept of Moral Rights
- SIX. COMPETING CLAIMS AND PRIORITY PRINCIPLES
- 1. The General Problem of Competing Claims
- 2. Human Rights and the Inherent Worth of Nonhumans
- 3. Five Priority Principles for the Fair Resolution of Conflicting Claims
- a. The Principle of Self-Defense
- b. The Principle of Proportionality
- c. The Principle of Minimum Wrong
- d. The Principle of Distributive Justice
- e. The Principle of Restitutive Justice
- 4. The Ethical Ideal of Harmony between Human Civilization and Nature
- 5. The Normative Function of the Ethical Ideal
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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